Here’s some links to places that families of children with additional needs can go to get some help and advice as we all try to support our children in a heatwave…
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Navigating Bath Time Challenges
For James, bath time provides the perfect dichotomy between something he absolutely loves (having a bath) and something he finds very hard indeed (transitions), and the tension that this creates for him can, sometimes, be almost overwhelming for us both.
Special Needs Dentist: Taking A Chance That Changed Everything
We took a chance, and so did they. So often we might feel that it is too risky to take a chance for our child with additional needs; we worry about the response we might get, we wonder if we have enough emotional strength to try, we get anxious about getting our child there and being turned away, with all the upset that might cause them. But sometimes we just need to take a chance…
Building Supportive Community for Parents, Carers, and Guardians of Children with Additional Needs
So many people said how valuable the evening had been. To gather with other parents, carers, and guardians, who are on a similar journey to themselves; to not feel so isolated and alone; to forge connections and friendships; all was hugely helpful.
The Dads’ Fire Circle – Supporting Dad’s Of Children With Additional Needs
The Dad’s that come along are from all over the UK and even further afield in some cases, but each one finds a place where they are understood, seen, listened to, and are no longer alone…
The Domino Effect: Understanding Routines
Routines are important, really important, they are the links of certainty that form a safe chain to follow through the day.
Breaking one of those links, even inadvertently, can cause real trauma.
When Our Child Becomes Nocturnal
If you journey with a nocturnal child (of any age) who is up in the night on a regular basis, I know how hard that journey is, I understand and empathise with you. It may help you to know next time you are up in the early hours that you are not alone, I may well be up with James too…
So Here It Is, ‘Merry Christmas’ Everybody’s Having Fun?
This time of year, it’s hard to escape from the deluge of Christmas tunes; whether it’s on the radio, in shops, in TV adverts, the same old songs are everywhere. Probably the most recognisable is that 1970’s classic from Slade, ‘Merry Xmas Everybody’…
Hearing it again for the millionth time today, the chorus of the song broke through to me and I heard the familiar words in a different way; I heard them as a parent of a child with special needs…
Just Keep Swimming…
Can you swim? When did you learn? Were you inspired by watching one of the Olympic greats winning a clutch of medals at an Olympic Games, maybe smashing a World Record or two on the way? When you started to swim, taking those first, tentative steps into the water, could you immediately swim like AdamContinue reading “Just Keep Swimming…”
Fathers’ Day – The Dads Collection!
On Sunday 19th June it is Fathers’ Day. A day which will be celebrated by some, mourned by others, a day of mixed emotions for more. Writing as ‘The Additional Needs Blogfather’, and as Founder of ‘The Dads’ Fire Circle’, Dads of children and young people with additional needs and disabilities have always been closeContinue reading “Fathers’ Day – The Dads Collection!”
The Dads' Fire Circle 